Posts tagged with ‘ behavioural economics ’

Getting into the policy MINDSPACE

Michael Hallsworth, 16 December 2010

Since the Institute published its MINDSPACE report in March, there has been an explosion of interest and activity around behavioural economics. Most notably, my co-author David Halpern now heads up a new Behavioural Insights Team in the Cabinet Office, which is tasked with ‘applying behavioural economics to policy in a systematic way’.

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No 2 to No 10: taking MINDSPACE to Downing Street

David Halpern, 13 October 2010

The Behavioural Insight Team – or ‘nudge’ unit, as Ministers call it – is about applying behavioural economics and social psychology to policy in a systematic way.

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